José-Modesto Diago is a member of a research group of Historia Actual of the Universidad de Cádiz where he graduated in Advanced Studies in the Program of Geography and History. He is a professor of Saxophone at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and a teacher of English as a foreign Language at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has performed as soloist and has given lectures about the history of music and organology at several European countries and in the United States. He has published several researching articles. He currently teaches saxophone in the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Manuel de Falla de Cádiz (Spain) and is carrying out doctoral studies related to the historical survival of the saxophone. Diago José-Modesto is the director and producer of the acclaimed audiovisual documentary SaxRevolutions: Adolphe Sax’s life, and founder of SaxResurrection, a publishing firm to bring to light the forgotten repertory of the nineteenth-century saxophone.
